Walking around on Resurrection ground
April 29, 2011 Leave a comment
Hanging in the Balance
Coal mine-Users of electricity
Oil drill-automobiles
Deforestation-Wood & wood pulp products
Commodity farming-Paper shopping bags full of corn based products & corn syrup
Corporate America-American Consumers
Job creation-Jonesian covetousness
Profit-Consumption
Drugs-Drug users
Non-directive-Directive
Supply-Demand
Who’s to blame?
April 16, 2011 Leave a comment
Vanity Fair, May 2011 issue, under the heading Five Things the Lamestream Media Won’t Tell You About the Constitution:
“2. The phrase “separation of church and state” appears nowhere in the Constitution. It was coined in 1975 by William Ayers.”
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Here’s something to ponder: a golf game is more important to Obama (who learned about compartmentalization while being around Ayers) than attending church with his family.
Obama has no problem deciding whether to play golf. The economy, Lybia and…? These issues don’t require faith or prayer or even a decision. For Obama, these things require golf (and campaigning for 2012).
2012: send Obama back to wherever he came from. Somewhere there is a community that needs his golf experience!
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In stark contrast to the morally filibustering Obama is the integrity and forthrightness of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan:
On the opposite side of the fence (or state border) from Obama is Wisconsin’s Rep. Paul Ryan. In the Sunday, April 17th, 2011 Chicago Tribune there is an article about Ryan titled Wisconsin’s Ryan is thrust into spotlight: Conservative’s plans put him at odds with Obama.” The article discusses some of the details of Ryan’s The Path to Prosperity budget plan. There is also this quote:
“Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, in the news for his own budget battles, is an ally (of Ryan). “There are two types of people in politics, people who want to be somebody great or people who want to do something great,” he said Paul is among the latter.””
And in the article:
“House Republican Peter Roskam (a Christian), of Wheaton (Illlinois), called him (Ryan) well-prepared and said, “He doesn’t overstate or oversell and he’s clear – that’s a gift in this town.”
And:
“”He’s very devoted to his family. He flies back for parent-teacher conferences,” said Janesville attorney George Steil Jr. who practiced with Ryan’s father.”
At the end of the article:
“Joe Van Rooy, who teaches government at Janesville’s Parker High School…takes his students to Washington every year and they meet with Ryan. He said the congressman, now in his seventh term, knows their families and remembers their names. Ryan lectures them about political civility.”
“He noticed, though, that one year Ryan was fingering prayer beads while taking student’s questions. The teacher asked why.
“He said, ‘I am so stressed out about the country.’”
(emphasis mine)
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It appears that for Obama, faith is just another tool to leverage himself and his constant campaign. He is more interested in power than in principle.
April 14, 2011 Leave a comment
The Democrat’s/progressive’s answers to any economic/political question: tax people more and give people a ration (bait-and-switch government); you need government’s help; the government has your best interest at heart, you are too stupid to know any better and government has deeper pockets than you, you won’t have a chance without government; the people’s pie needs to be divvied up; Fairness is better than justice; equal outcome trumps exceptional achievement; everyone who is not wealthy is a victim of unfairness; It’s every woman’s right to commit abortion; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness can only come when others are forced to share their life, liberty and happiness; having a government-secured future is better than trusting in a God we cannot see; you shouldn’t have to reap what you sow.
The Republican response to a problem: let’s make the pie bigger so that we can all share in its increase; government, get off our backs; it is every fetus’ right to be protected; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness comes when a person pursues life, liberty and happiness. charity profits from such pursuits; accountability is mandatory.
April 9, 2011 Leave a comment
It is Saturday afternoon and I am listening to Wynton Marsalis playing Stadust on his horn. I am drinking Sofie, a tart Belgian Style Ale from Goose Island and I am reading the current (May 2011) Vanity Fair. I am suddenly struck by an off-handed pejorative comment in a VF article (again).
The current Vanity Fair magazine issue contains a column by contributing editor John Heilpern. The “Out To Lunch” one page piece is titled Avon Calling. This sounds interesting. But, wait.
The article relates Heilpern’s recent interview of Professor Harold Bloom at Bloom’s home in New Haven. Bloom, a professor of humanities at Yale for the past 55 years, is a well-known Shakespeare scholar. He has studied and read Shakespeare’s work in great depth. His latest book, number 39 in a series of scholarly works is titled The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life. (I am currently reading Bloom’s book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.)
In the interview Bloom’s talks about his respect for Shakespeare:
“If Shakespeare is not God, he told Heilpern, “I don’t know what God is.” And, regarding Shakespeare’s biographers, “Let me quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, best mind to come out of America: ‘Shakespeare is the only biographer of Shakespeare.’ In other words, don’t look for the man in the work; look for the work in the man. And stop speculating about his life.”
Further in the interview, Bloom: “All high concept Shakespeare directors should be shot a dawn,” Later, Heilpern mentions Al Pacino’s and F. Murray Abraham’s New York performances of Shylock (The Merchant of Venice) saying that Abraham is the greatest Shylock he’d ever seen. (Recently, March, Abraham was Shylock at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago.)
The interview brushes on the topic of Falstaff. Bloom: “Sir John Falstaff…even more than Hamlet – and that’s saying something – he’s the most intelligent person in all of literature. He has the best mind, the best wit, the most beautiful laughing language. As my late friend the marvelous critic George Wilson Knight said about Hamlet, he’s the embassy of death. But Falstaff is life! Falstaff is blessing.”
Prince Hal and Falstaff’s banishment are mentioned and then Bloom says, “Falstaff sees through the all-powerful. ““He sees through everything. He’s the best possible guide to the state of the world today. Can you think of anyone more antithetical to the Fascism of the Tea Party than Sir John Falstaff?”
What?! Why the sniping Tea Party comment? Wait. I think I know why the old fart and gassy pontificator Bloom, learned disciple of Falstaff and urbane liberal, looks down upon the Tea Party from his ivory tower:
“He’s a drunk, a liar, and a cheat. Yet he’s been glowingly described as “the personification of England”. He’ll do anything with a debt but honour it, and makes light of accepting bribes from fit men and leading a troop of 150 decrepit soldiers to their deaths. Yet he’s also taken, at his own admiring estimate, as a great booster-jab of infectious liveliness: “I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.” He has a spectacular obesity problem and he’s referred to – with epic freedom from euphemism – as “that swoll’n parcel of dropsies”, “that stuff’d cloak-bag of guts”, “this bed-presser, this horse-back-breaker, this hill of flesh” – a man who secretes sweat in such quantities that he “lards the lean earth as he walks along”. Yet his most prominent characteristic, according to many commentators, is his “jubilant brain”. Meet, if you will, Sir John Falstaff.”
O, the humanity!
The above quote from this web page.
April 7, 2011 Leave a comment
Dear Government,
Even if you were to shut down due to a budget crisis our national debt never shuts down. In fact, our national debt continues to grow and mushroom. Soon, Middle Earth and the lives of men will be destroyed. This fact pleases The Dark Lord Sauron but not us Hobbits.
Destroy the Ring that controls you!
Sincerely,
Bilbo T. Baggins
April 5, 2011 Leave a comment
Ob-a-Man is running for re-election. This UberMan has never stopped campaigning (except while making hops and malt into Obama beer: PrezFez. He must be getting ready for another beer summit.).
It is said that he will gather one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000.00) to finance his campaign. (This money, put into the hands of the common folk, would do much to stimulate the economy. Ob’s ego is stimulated enough.)
Obama, the Enabler: “We can Win the Future… if you just keep buying the lottery tickets I’m selling!”; “Carpe pecunia!”
(Obamany: Asking your husband if you can spend more money than you as a couple will ever have in your life and telling him that your household will be better off for it! “Honey, let’s make the kids pay our bills. Today, we live!)
Obama: LOL, COL (cry out loud).
Mene Mene Tekel Upsharin
March 19, 2011 Leave a comment
Obama: a muddled-mess; a Niebuhr-ian flip-flopper; a John Cage-ian adopter of chance procedures; a point neither here nor there.
The score calls for a PRESIDENT–
a man Sostenuto,
a Well-Tempered Clavier –
not a free-floating theological realist, not a pointilist nor a tempo rubato self-centered-ess and certainly not 4’33”.
March 8, 2011 Leave a comment
Sadly lacking in our Republic:
The town square, the front porch, the square dance, the ice cream social, the church/town picnic…the three legged race.
Cindy Wity 